November? really?

[Pibz]

The whole "The dev team went on vacation for a month" is really a poor excuse for such a huge company as SE is, i mean they should know better, you don't just send your whole team on vacation for *however long* (irrelevant) at the same time and halt development, wtf? Did they all go on some FFXIV 18th floor roadtrip team vacation?

[Khemorex]

The whole "The dev team went on vacation for a month" is really a poor excuse for such a huge company as SE is, i mean they should know better, you don't just send your whole team on vacation for a whole month at the same time and halt development, wtf? Did they all go on some FFXIV 18th floor roadtrip team vacation?

why not ? you can still go play something else if ur that bored and come bk for 3.1 no one is forcing you to play and pay a subcription.

[Pibz]

why not ? you can still go play something else if ur that bored and come bk for 3.1 no one is forcing you to play and pay a subcription.

What on earth does that have to do with anything?!
I didn't say i was bored . Nor did i say i have run out of content, etc because whether i have or not is irrelevant... I said "dev vacation for however long" was a bad excuse/dev practice...
Go white knight response someone else please. Or actually respond to me in context.

[Xairos]

What on earth does that have to do with anything?!
I didn't say i was bored. I said "dev vacation for a whole month" was a bad excuse/dev practice...
Go white knight response someone else please

Your anger (maybe not just YOU per se but Pibz as well) is based on an opinion not a fact. We DONT know how long the vacation was for. To assume it was for a month because the patch is delayed from the expected Oct to a month from that to Nov is poor logic.
Thus, you are essentially White Knighting your baseless emotions and lack of facts because you believe them to be true.

The only thing I defend is their vacation. Because they are human. The timing is largely irrelevant as most people will drop in November because of Fallout 4 (i assume). As such, the super dedicated (who will be subbed to that point anyway) will remain and enjoy the content. Fin

[Pibz]

Your anger is based on an opinion not a fact. We DONT know how long the vacation was for. To assume it was for a month because the past is delayed from the expected Oct to a month from that to Nov is poor logic.
Thus, you are essentially White Knighting your baseless emotions and lack of facts because you believe them to be true.

"Anger", "bored". Stop inferring stuff into my text ffs. If anything it's you people getting "emotional" over "your" game receiving any kind of criticism and thus attacking me instead of my point (because yes inferring emotions into text that doesn't even clue into any is bad argument construction, and is irrelevant to my point).
I thought i had read somewhere that they said it was 1 month. There i fixed my post, doesn't change anything. So we don't know, it doesn't matter. The fact that they couldn't manage regular employee vacation without prolonging the dev cycle to the longest gap there's ever been is STILL bad practice/poor excuse, you just can't get away from how bad of an excuse it is.
I don't care even remotely it was delayed, but don't (dev team/SE) excuse yourself to the playerbase with your poor management.

Oh and just as a note, if they took a much smaller than 1 month vacation, and it ended up extending the dev cycle for 1 and half to 2 months ( the supposed cycle is 3/3 and a half months), it's not that it's bad logic to assume they took one month vacation (it's actually reasonable), but that something weirder/even in poorer form is going on in there.

[Xairos]

Its funny how Opinion (in this sphere of the internet) quickly becomes fact:

Vacation = 2 month vacation that delayed the patch by 5 months
Vacation = 2 week vacation that in turn pushed back the patch by 3 weeks for when it might have been released.
Sidecontent = Nothing worth doing because 210 (true 210) comes from Savage
RNG = Our savior from the grind of Savage
RNG = Our demise as this will become an eastern MMO where We play the same thing over and over again looking for decent stats on gear *coughDiablo3cough*
FFXIV Dev Team = A huge dev team with limitless resources since the game is doing okay
FFXIV Dev Team = A small, plucky dev team that rebuilt a dying game and are just now starting to see a profit.
*saving grace for the game* = Pretty much anything that hasnt come out yet (i.e. Relic will save this game for me...for a while... unless it's grindy.... I think....)

Pick one of the opinions stated above and run with it as if it is a scientific fact. Welcome to the Forums.

[DragonHunterG]

im actually cool with this completely. in fact, most of the time i feel they release too much in too little time or breaks in between that i can't even see or do everything. so this will be nice.

[Chewy2nd]

I think it's best to look at the game like

ARR - Pilot episode

2.1-2.55 - Season 1

Heavensward - Holiday special

3.1-3.x - Season 2

It kinda makes the wait feel a bit easier for me, as it is like waiting for a new series of a TV show, lol.

[BigTough]

I wonder if this means we'll only wait a month or two for 2.2?

[Heskett]

ITT: Babies. Giant man-babies.

How many of you guys are going to sit there and pout about how ludicrous this is and stay subscribed to the game anyways? The answer; most of you.